At the 11th annual Craigs Aspiring Art Prize ceremony at the Holy Family Catholic School in Wanaka on Friday night, Baker was runner-up in the supreme award, the Craigs Investment Partners Prize, for her embroidered portrait of Mr Peters, entitled Had Enough? Baker said she started embroidering political portraits only a year ago and Mr Peters’ was her third, after Donald Trump and Gareth Morgan.
She said she used real dog hair to represent Mr Peters’ "dogged personality", flax fibre to reflect his Maori ancestry and Thai silk "because he is anti-immigration".
Winner of the Craigs Investment Partners Prize was Liam Gerard for his charcoal work Gallows Hymn.
Brian Stewart won the award for best landscape artist for his oil painting Wilson’s Lab Revisited.
Becky Cameron won the prize for the best work under $1000 for her drawing on a topographical map, entitled Journeys On and Off the Map.
The Craigs Aspiring Art Prize is the Holy Family Catholic School’s biggest fundraiser and has raised more than $170,000 to date.
The exhibition finishes tomorrow.
